Tumor "Neighborhoods" (IMAGE)

University of Pittsburgh

Tumor "Neighborhoods"

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Tissue samples from head and neck cancer patients that show tumor “neighborhoods.” The image on the left is more diffuse because it has dysfunctional, exhausted immune cells, while the image on the right is of a sophisticated neighborhood teeming with cancer-fighting immune cells.

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Bruno Lab, University of Pittsburgh

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